> SVG does:
>
> http://dev.w3.org/SVG/profiles/1.1F2/publish/idl.html
>
> Admittedly this isn’t Web IDL, still OMG IDL.
I see. Thanks Cameron. So even though it seems those can be replaced
by 'implements', is it not a plan?
- Shiki
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Cameron McCormack<cam@mcc.id.au> wrote:
> Shiki Okasaka:
>> 'InterfaceInheritance' is currently defined as a ScopedNameList or
>> epsilon. But in practice I don't see any web interface that actually
>> uses the multiple interface inheritance like,
>>
>> interface X : A, B, C
>> {
>> }
>
> SVG does:
>
> http://dev.w3.org/SVG/profiles/1.1F2/publish/idl.html
>
> Admittedly this isn’t Web IDL, still OMG IDL.
>
>> Is it possible to inhibit the multiple interface inheritance at the
>> Web IDL grammar level? Now that we have ImplementedOn or 'implements',
>> the multiple interface inheritance seems to be unnecessary to me.
>
> There is a subtle difference between ‘implements’ and multiple
> inheritance. In Java, ‘interface X : A, B, C’ will result in a Java
> interface that looks like
>
> public interface X extends A, B, C {
> }
>
> while having
>
> interface X { };
> X implements A;
> X implements B;
> X implements C;
>
> will just correspond to
>
> public interface X {
> }
>
> and all X objects will happen to implement A, B and C.
>
> In ECMAScript there is no difference.
>
> Also note that I’ve dropped [ImplementedOn] in favour of the
> ‘implements’ statement, although I notice just now that there are still
> a couple of references to it that I need to remove.
>
> --
> Cameron McCormack ≝ http://mcc.id.au/
>